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• Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc.
  for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in....
• But the greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison, who was a brilliant inventor despite the fact that he had little formal education and lived in New Jersey.
  Edison's first major invention in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented....
• After [Benjamin] Franklin came a herd of Electrical Pioneers whose names have become part of our electrical terminology
  Myron Volt, Mary Louise Amp, James Watt, Bob Transformer, etc....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Here is a simple experiment that will teach you an important electrical lesso
  On a cool, dry day, scuff your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friend's mouth and touch one of his dental fillings....